Dec. 20, 2007
John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602
john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-189
NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR HOLIDAY DELIVERY TO SPACE STATION
HOUSTON - NASA Television will provide live coverage of the arrival of
a new shipment of food, fuel, supplies and holiday gifts to the
International Space Station on the morning after Christmas.
Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineers Yuri
Malenchenko and Dan Tani will be standing by as the unpiloted ISS
Progress 27 resupply craft automatically docks to the station's Pirs
Docking Compartment on Wednesday, Dec. 26, at about 2:25 a.m. CST.
NASA TV coverage of the new spacecraft's arrival at the station will
begin at 2 a.m.
The cargo ship is carrying more than 2 tons of supplies for the three
crew members. It will be launched on Sunday, Dec. 23, at 1:12 a.m.,
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. There will be no
television coverage of the launch.
NASA TV is carried on an MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite
AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz,
vertical polarization. For those in Alaska or Hawaii, NASA Television
will be seen on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, transponder
18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization. In both instances, a
Digital Video Broadcast (DVB)-compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder
with modulation of QPSK/DBV, data rate of 36.86 and FEC 3/4 will be
needed for reception. The NASA Television schedule is available on
the NASA Television website, at:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the space station and the Expedition 16
crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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